Thread: Is piracy likely to harm ebook sales?
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Old 04-01-2010, 08:57 AM   #36
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Originally Posted by Hamlet53 View Post
Final point about piracy actually benefiting authors? It is possible I guess, but I am far from convinced. I don't see how broad circulation among the never-pay-for-it crowd will ever benefit authors in sales and income.

By creating new readers they would have never otherwise reached. Some of those will go on to buy other products and get their friends to read them, write blogs about them, etc. How do you think the music industry's profits have risen so dramatically since mp3 downloading became mainstream?
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